fineness of fiber rarely seen in an old ram."

Pasha developed into a great sire and his get has been distributed into
nearly every State in the Union, Canada, Mexico and Australia. Without
doubt Pasha's blood courses through the veins of more Angoras than any
sire ever imported. He was acknowledged by every one to be the best
individual ever brought to America. Mr. Landrum, who had seen most of
the Angoras brought from Turkey and who saw Pasha at San Jose,
California, in 1899, pronounced him the most perfect goat he had ever
seen and a much better goat than any which had ever come to America from
Turkey. He bought some of Pasha's get for his own flock.

[Illustration: ANGORA BUCK PASHA.

Bailey South Africa Importation 1893.]

In 1899, the buck Capetown was imported by Mr. Bailey from South Africa
to secure certain points. Size and a little "yolk," together with the
covering, fineness, freeness from kemp, ringlets and evenness were
especially desired. Capetown has been a great sire and is still in fine
condition on the Bailey farms.

THE ASIA MINOR GOATS.

In 1901, Dr. W. C. Bailey, armed with an honorary commission from the
United States Department of Agriculture, personally visited every
goat-raising section of Asia Minor, and after seeing hundreds of
thousands, and examining minutely hundreds, secured and succeeded in
exporting two bucks and two does. The Sultan had passed an edict in
1881, prohibiting the export of these animals, as he hoped to keep the
industry for Asia Minor. The undertaking was a hazardous one, and the
expedition was fought with many and almost insurmountable difficulties.
Asia Minor is alive with bandits, and to hold a foreigner for ransom is
a favorite pastime. Then, too, a Christian's life is not considered of
much value by a Mohamedan. The goats were transported for miles on mule
and camel back, carried across the Bosphorus under a boat load of hay,
disfigured by shearing and powdered with coal dust, transported through
the streets of Constantinople in closed carriages protected from police
molestation by the "golden wand," and finally condemned by the Italian
Government because no health certificate accompanied them from point of
shipment, but eventually landed in California in 1901. The bucks
Beibazar and Kjutiah, and the does Moholitch and Eskischehr find the
climate of California suited to their wants. These four goats cost over
$5,000 landed in California.

[Illustration: BUC